Victoria Loree Enders & Pamela Beth Radcliff 
Constructing Spanish Womanhood 
Female Identity in Modern Spain

This book, the first anthology in English, links the concerns of Spanish women’s history to those of women’s history elsewhere in Europe and throughout the world. The contributors, representing the best of the new historical scholarship, expand our knowledge of the general field of Spanish history and contribute to the reconfiguring of European history through the inclusion of the Spanish experience. They tie empirical inquiries into the history of women in Spain to current feminist theoretical concerns, including debates about identity and agency, and they show how ‘contesting identities’ also lead to ‘contesting categories’ and into broad debates about cultural particularism.

Tabella dei contenuti

List of Illustrations




Foreword




by Karen Often




Editors’ Preface




General Introduction: Contesting Identifies/Contesting Categories




Victoria Lorée Enders and Pamela Beth Radcliff




Part I: Sociocultural Models: Prescribing Female Identity in Spain




Introduction




1. Un/Contested Identifies: Motherhood, Sex Reform and the Modernization of Gender Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Spain




Mary Nash




2. Shaping True Catholic Womanhood: Francoist Educational Discourse on Women




Aurora Morcillo Gómez




3. ‘Cortes and Marina’: Gender and the Reconquest of America Under the Franco Regime




María A. Escudero




4. Masculinity Versus Femininity: The Sanfermines: 1939-1978




Clotilde Puertolas




Part II: Work Identities




Introduction




5. Life and Work in the Tobacco Factories: Female Industrial Workers in the Early Twentieth Century




Rosa Marta Capel Martínez




6. Representations of Women Workers: Tobacco Strikers in the 1890s




D.J. O’Connor




7. Women on the Land: Household and Work in the Southern Countryside, 1875-1939




Timothy Rees




8. Enlacing Women’s Stories: Composing Womanhood in a Coastal Galician Village




Heidi Kelley




Part III: Political Identities




Introduction




9. Liberty, Honor, Order: Gender and Political Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Spain




Sarah L. White




10. Spanish Women in the Resistance to Napoleon, 1808-1814




John Lawrence Tone




11. Redressing the Balance: Gendered Acts of Justice around the Mining Community of Río Tinto in 1913




Temma Kaplan




12. Women’s Politics: Consumer Riots in Twentieth-Century Spain




Pamela Beth Radcliff




13. ‘Into the Clear Air of the Plaza’: Spanish Women Achieve the Vote in 1931




Judith Keene




14. Women and Men at the Ballot Box: Voting in Spain’s Two Democracies




Gerard Alexander




15. Problematic Portraits: The Ambiguous Historical Role of the Sección Femenina of the Falange Victoria Lorée Enders




General Conclusion




Bibliography




Contributors




Index

Circa l’autore

Victoria Loree Enders is Associate Professor of History at Northern Arizona University.
Pamela Beth Radcliff is Associate Professor of History at the University of California at San Diego. She is the author of
From Mobilization to Civil War: The Politics of Polarization in the Spanish City of Gijón, 1900–1937.